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blue book

1. adjective (usually hyphenated) Of or pertaining to a compendium or almanac of statistics and detailed information, as of people, consumer goods, property, etc. You should always check the blue-book value of a home before you purchase from an independent seller.

2. noun A compendium or almanac of statistics or detailed information, as of people, consumer goods, property, etc. The government's blue book lists everyone employed at a federal level. I always check the blue book before making any major purchases.

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Being named the overall brand winner in Kelley Blue Books 2016 5-Year Cost to Own Awards shows our commitment to create and build better vehicles across our lineup.

United States : Hyundai Motor Wins Best Brand in Kelley Blue Books 2016 5-Year Cost to Own Awards

Feminist and Wobbly member Margaret Sanger provided illegal and much sought after information on birth control in a Blue Book innocuously rifled, What Every Girl Should Know.

Proletarian paperbacks: the Little Blue Books and Working-Class Culture

Blue Book produces business contact and marketing information and has 48 employees.

SanomaWSOY divests Blue Book to TDC Forlag A/S

Germany was being rehabilitated after World War I by the Allies, and the Blue Book had become an "embarrassment" as it "painted the European in too poor light".

The Blue Book they didn't want us to read: How Britain, Germany and South Africa destroyed a damning book on German atrocities in Namibia

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GFOA and the Blue Book

The JAMA study results are consistent with similar results published by Healthcare Blue Book, which evaluated a cash-paying patient's ability to obtain pricing information for an arthroscopic knee surgery.

Healthcare Blue Book Research Supports JAMA Study on Huge Pricing Variations Among Providers

The Blue Book Editor and Consultant will organize and coordinate the North Dakota

Blue Book Editor and Consultant

Many of the counties that are absent from the Blue Book cover have fewer people, and therefore fewer photographers.

Gaps in a photogenic state

Blue Book Pocket Guide for Winchester Firearms and Values.

Blue Book Pocket Guide for Winchester Firearms and Values

The Blue Book has served as a reference book of government and politics in New Hampshire for 32 years.

BIA purchases 'Blue Book,' plans changes

Kelley Blue Book honours Hyundai

Davison's seven directories serve the textile, fence, commercial, marine, tile and corrugated box industries and include "Textile Blue Book," "Fence Blue Book," "Tile & Stone Blue Book," "Marine Alaska West Coast Yellow Pages," "Marine Atlantic Yellow Pages," "Marine Gulf States Yellow Pages" and "Box and Carton Blue Book.

Simmons-Boardman acquires Davison Publishing

Blue Book Publications announced it has published its one-millionth copy of the Blue Book Of Gun Values.

Blue Book publishes one-millionth book

Now in an fully updated eighth edition, Jane Straus' easy to use reference guide and workbook, The Blue Book Of Grammar And Punctuation: The Mysteries Of Grammar And Punctuation Revealed, provides writers with the rules of writer free from jargon while utilizing real-world examples of proper grammar and correct punctuation that are universal in their cultural content.

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation

HUNDREDS of Evertonians have sent back subscription forms to have their names included in The Blue Book, Gordon Watson's recollections and memories of his 64 years serving Everton Football Club.